Lot 1201: Eight Immortals of the wine cup

ZHANG WO (ACTIVE CIRCA 1340-1365)
Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup
Handscroll, ink on paper
33 x 335 cm. (13 x 139 3/4 in.)
Inscribed and signed
Dated guimao year of the Zhizheng era (1363)
One seal of the artist
Colophon by Shen Can (16th century)
Eleven collectors' seals including one of Xiang Yuanbian (1525-1590), one Jin Cheng (1878-1926), four of Zhang Xuelian (1901-2001), and five of others

Sogen Minshin Meiga Taikan, Tokyo, 1931, pp.33-34
Osvald Siren, Chinese Paintings: Leading Masters and Principles, London, 1956-58, vol. 7, p.100
James Cahill, An Index of Early Chinese Painters and Paintings: Tang Sung Yuan, Berkeley, 1980, p.243
Between Heaven and Earth, Secular and Divine Figural Images in Chinese Paintings and Objects, Sydney L Moss Ltd, 1988, Hong Kong, book cover and pl. 1

Liu Tingmei collection
Jin Cheng collection
Zhang Xulian (1901-2001) collection, Hawaii
Edwin Meader (1909-2007) collection, Kalamazoo, Michigan